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Beyond Today

Why is revenge porn still spreading?

Beyond Today

BBC

News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

A woman who changed her name to escape revenge porn has once again become a victim after finding images of herself on a website containing folders full of explicit images of women “from every city in the UK”. Some of the folders give away full names and locations of the women, but most of them do not even know that the website exists. We hear about Mikala Monsoon who waived her right to anonymity as a victim of crime because she wants the crime taken more seriously. BBC Scotland news reporter Connor Gillies tells us how the police have responded and why revenge porn is so difficult to stop. Producer: Duncan Barber. Mixed by Nicolas Raufast. Editor: John Shields.

Transcript

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0:00.0

BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.

0:06.1

Hello, I'm Tina Dehealey.

0:07.8

This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,

0:10.2

where we ask one big question about one big story.

0:14.0

Today, why is revenge porn still spreading?

0:27.0

My name is McKeelsoon, I'm 23 and I have changed my name in the past because of the

0:37.8

ashes that we're about to talk about.

0:39.8

Michaela changed her name and even moved cities to escape revenge porn.

0:44.4

The photos were very old and quite unrecognizable but I felt very angry for everybody else who was

0:51.0

involved.

0:52.0

She's become a victim for the second time.

0:55.0

After finding images of herself on a website

0:58.0

containing folders full of explicit photographs of women

1:02.0

organized into a kind of creepy directory of cities across the UK.

1:07.0

Well, Michaela waved her right to anonymity as a victim of crime because she wants revenge porn to be taken more seriously.

1:15.4

Connor Giddies is a reporter for BBC Scotland who spoke to McKay there. He's been on the story for a

1:20.1

while and we called him up to find out what's going on and why revenge porn is so difficult

1:25.7

to stop despite it now being illegal.

1:29.1

A few weeks ago a number of people had contacted the BBC saying that they are kind of intimate images,

1:36.1

explicit images of them were on a file sharing website that was kind of been hosted abroad.

1:42.3

What did you find when you went on there?

1:44.0

So you get sent a link and in this case our team got sent a link to this file sharing website

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